Monday, June 15, 2020

Stupid Things Escape Room Players Did


Escape rooms are a strange chance to see what people will do when they're left up to their own wits. Usually it ends with idiots smashing props with hammers, smuggling tools in and trying to escape through very real air ducts and sewers. Escape room employees see some weird stuff.

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Text - chazminor6 1.2k points · 2 days ago I did an escape room with my family and the workers have to tell you not to lick the light bulb. This is because some guy thought if he licked the light bulb the answer would be revealed on the light bulb. The only answer he found was light bulbs are hot and can burn you.

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Text - Genocide_Fan 30.5k points · 2 days ago I interviewed for a job at an escape room. They told me that one of their standard instructions you MUST tell every group is to not stick things in electrical outlets because too many people did it.

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Text - riotoustripod 26.9k points · 2 days ago Escape room enthusiast here. We spent far more time than I care to admit trying to figure out what the hell the numbers written in sharpie on the underside of the rug in the middle of the room meant. Turns out they were an inventory number from the thrift store the designer bought the thing from, and nobody else had ever noticed them before. We still won, but that wasted a LOT of our time.

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Text - OdaSet 26.9k points · 2 days ago Had a group come in, I noticed they had been drinking a little, but seemed mostly fine. So I let them into the room and start the clock. They were just wandering around. At the half an hour mark they were laying on the floor and rolling around. They didn't do any harm to the room. I don't remember if they even solved one puzzle. When I let them out after an hour they claimed it was fun. But they didn't really do anything? And did they remember it the next

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Text - trash_confetti 24.8k points · 2 days ago · edited 1 day ago I one had a group of drunk guys go in and they ran through their allotted hints pretty quickly. They asked for another hint and we said over the speakers that they were out of hints. One of the guys threatened to start taking off his clothes until we gave another hint.

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Text - steun88 23.4k points · 2 days ago In the Netherlands there is this prison escape room where everyone is a prisoner and you have to escape prison (it is done in an actual ancient prison). There are about 300 participants and 85 actors (mostly prison guards and some prisoners). They have over 15 storylines which you can follow and there are other inmates (actors) which will lead those storylines and send you one quests. Coming back to the question, at the beginning they warned everyone that

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Text - Tolkien-Minority 20.4k points · 2 days ago Mate worked at an escape room and he told me that some guys tried to smash a hole in the wall to get out because it was an Alcatraz themed room.

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Text - frozonesmite 15.7k points · 2 days ago First thing I had to learn working at an escape room: Everything, yes EVERYTHING, in the room was going to be dismantled, pulled on, or messed with in some way. Have a screwdriver in the room? Maybe there's a clue in the light switch cover. Blacklight? Must have to take it completely apart. TV for clues? Must have to unplug/change inputs. And anything not nailed down is bound to be broken

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Text - TortanusTheShuttle 15.5k points · 2 days ago 9 One guy pissed on the wall, thinking the plaster was snow.

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Text - LordSnooBoo 13.6k points · 2 days ago One of them believed the clue was inside them

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Text - Palindromic_ 13.5k points · 2 days ago At an escape room near me they had a group of lads on a stag do. These guys got very drunk and during the escape room, thought they could escape via the sewers. The managed to rip out the manhole cover which was bolted down into concrete. This cover is now permanently broken as its too expensive to fix they said. Advised us to not escape via the sewers...

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Text - uoYredruM 13.0k points · 2 days ago 9 I don't work at one but my coworker went to one last year and his story was hilarious. He's a really serious guy from Boston, got talked into going to one with his wife and a few old friends that had come down for vacation. He said as soon as they walked in he saw a broom that looked completely out of place so he grabbed it. He thought they'd need it at some point. They made it out of the first room. They go to the second room and he's still got the b

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Text - They're reading the clues over and over and he gets fixated on the broom while everyone else is searching the room. He's looking it over up and down, checking the handle for markings (mind you he has terrible near sight vision) and checking the bristles. Times running out and he's arguing with his wife at this point that the broom has the final clue. Time runs up, they walk out and the crew is just dying laughing at him. Someone left the broom by mistake, nothing more, nothing less. He ca

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Text - Thesunwillshineonus 13.0k points · 2 days ago One time, a group was trying to figure out the code to a locked compartment. So this huge guy In the group decided this was a waste of time and tried to rip off the compartment door with his bare hands. He was almost successful, but we stopped him before he could do further damage to the door. He didn't understand what was wrong. Another one happened where a group were handcuffed and they couldn't find the key. The game master was trying to gi

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Text - mizboring 12.8k points · 2 days ago Not sure if this counts. I did an escape room with a group of friends. At the end, you found a flash drive which was supposed to be plugged into a computer. We opened the document and there were instructions to print. We got print, and the printer gave us an "out of ink" error. We assumed this was part of the game and started looking for a magenta cartridge. Then an employee slipped in the room, replaced the cartridge, and told us to hit print again. Ap

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Text - staticman1 12.5k points · 2 days ago I went to one where there were three identical rooms which teams competed in at the same time. If you finished you then got to watch and listen to the other teams. Our team did pretty well and we got to watch the other two teams try to complete it. Anyway, there was this one lock which was a number combination and you solved it by finding some sheet music in a book, with five notes on it, which corresponded to numbers. The piece was entitled 'The Key'

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Text - bustypirate 12.2k points · 2 days ago A group came in that disassembled some of the furniture (a bed and a desk), ripped some of the wallpaper off the walls and pulled the heads off some stuffed animals

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Text - Blemmyes 11.1k points · 2 days ago Not an escape room worker, but second time I went to one the owner told me that once a group decided to smash all the locks because they found the hammer (on which a clue is written) They had to replace all locks and it is now a toy hammer. I'd like to say those people were morons but when we found it the same idea was discussed in our group

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Text - indigoneutrino 8.2k points · 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago I feel kinda bad about the time our group unscrewed half the pictures on the wall using a paper clip, since none of us had the sense to think that maybe the pictures being screwed down was a sign we weren't supposed to look behind them.

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Text - maarten-col 5.2k points · 2 days ago · edited 1 day ago My buddy guessed a lock's combo which gave us the final clue, but we had not found the other ones. We ending up solving the room backwards. When the room administrator came in she had nothing else to say but "What the fuck did you guys do."

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Text - Busteray 3.4k points · 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago I was the player here. This was a horror themed escape house with people in costumes screaming at you from time to time with chainsaws and shit. We were in a room with an open jail cage and we knew the next clue was in that cage but it's pretty obvious that cage was designed to scare the shit out of whoever was inside. I waltzed in, the cage door slammed shut behind me. I took the note and slipped myself out between the bars. We waited

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Text - lw2797 3.3k points · 2 days ago Pulled the air vent covers off the walls/floor. Had to add in an official disclaimer in the rules shpeal i did before they went in the room, "NO CLUES IN THE AIR VENTS!" Customers were stupid a lot, but it was a pretty sweet gig overall!

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